Richard Koman wrote this report for O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter on the
California Court of Appeal ruling against Apple’s attempt to
subpoena email records from the ISPs for PowerPage and AppleInsider.
For analysis on the ruling’s “impact on the industry”, Koman turns
to Rob Enderle, whom he quotes via email:

“Apple is really the only firm that doesn’t use nondisclosure
agreements and, as a result, they stood alone in this. So,
other then [sic] a few execs likely feeling superior because
they guessed the outcome of this correctly (did anyone really
think it was going to end differently?) this should have
little impact on the Valley.”

This is so false it’s laughable. Apple is arguably the most
NDA-happy company in the entire industry. Apple probably has its
janitors signed to NDAs. And as MDJ pointed out, the appeals court
specifically noted that in this case, Apple’s employees had signed
NDAs regarding the Asteroid technology. (MDJ further notes that even
leaving aside point about NDAs, Enderle is still wrong about Apple
“[standing] alone in this” — amicus briefs supporting Apple
were filed by IBM, Genentech, and the Information Technology
Industry Council).

For just passing this easily-refuted obvious nonsense along as
though it were true, Richard Koman is our jackass of the week.